Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
THE DECLINE or MISSING.
Some of the Reasons Why It Has FaIIe
Into nesuetuia

Kissing is out of style Nobody does it
now but sweethearts, young children and
teachers. The first blow was struck by the
medical profession about the time of the
| decease of Princess Alice Ever since the
practice has been denounced, and in fami-
lies where proper respect is paid to hy-
giene, children are cautioned against pro-
miscuous kissing.
In society woman is not kissed twice in
a season. When an old friend is greeted
and advances with her lips the victim
turns her face and the caress falls askance.
Possibly the very woman who is opposed
to the practice takes the initiative. but
her lips never meet lips. She may kiss
| within fraction of your moutI-kiss your
chin, your cheek, or your forehead; kiss
your "eyelid into repose," or kiss your
hair; but if she has any training, socially,
she Will never kiss your mouth. The re-
pugnance to kissing is due largely to the
academic training, in nearly all the IA
nous colleges, for women there is special
teacher or doctress i'll physiology, and in
the so-called oral recitations the pernicious
effects of OSCILLATION are considered at great
length. BY way Of tolerating what seems
to be a necessary evil, various theories are
advanced and various provisions advocated.
The girl who comes from Smith College,
Northampton, kisses on the oblique line
that falls from the left corner of your
mouth, but when kissed, is SO adroit in the
way she Jerks her head that the point of
salutation may be found on radius from
the right of her demure little mouth. The
Nassar graduate kisses more than her
Smith College friend, but the chin is her
choice, as you will observe in an attempt
to salute her. The seniors from Wesley
press their kisses high up on the face, al
most under the sweep of the eyelash, and
the Lake Forest and Harvard Annex
maidens kiss at a point equally distant
from the nose and ear.
Nothing is more dainty than the kiss of
well-bred chaperone, who, mindful of the
time and trouble spent over the powder
box, gently presses her lips on your hair
just north of your ear. The minister's
wife is another sweet soul. who knows
where a kiss will do the least harm. and
her favorite method is an air kiss, with
gentle pressure of her cheek to your
cheek. The woman of fashion who patro-
nizes you and lets you visit her while she |
Is at her siesta kisses you anywhere about |
the triangle between The eve, ear and hair
line. She has learned long ago about
the incompatibility of haste and grace, and
as she advances you see her lips turn in,
and simultaneous with the kiss is thick, |
vicious noise that sounds like the tearing
of a middle-aged mashmallow drop.
Married women are more addicted to
kissing than single ones, as every lady
knows who goes calling, and they are the
very kisses that young woman least en-
joys for the reason their lips are always wet.
Kissing the face of an irregularly pow
dered, soapy-smelling dame is about as I'M
savory a pastime as gathering bouquet
of dandelions. The West side women out
kiss any other division of Chicago.
The Southsiders kiss discreetly and the
bellies and matrons along the lake shore
are too cosmopolitan to waste their sweet
ness. Their greeting is the handwriting
prescribed by London and Endorsed by the
patricians of Newport and Murray Hill.
Meet Rush or Cass street lady and she
frankly proffers her easily-gloved hand
and shakes from the shoulder to a one-two
count. Her pretty cousin on Bellevue av-
enue and lake shore drive is more artistic,
and her arm is rigid from the elbow up.
Go still further north, and the carefully
sehooled young wife and her queenly sister
shake hands, but never an inch of the arm.
CHICAGO Inter- Ocean.